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Deep Dive: PIPEDREAM/Incontroller ICS Attack Framework

Industry News — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 16:01:23 +0000

In this session, Mark Plemmons, Sr. Director for Threat Intelligence at Dragos, dives deep into the technical details and real-world impact on the modular ICS attack framework known as PIPEDREAM/Incontroller

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Intelligence Gathering on U.S. Critical Infrastructure

Eduard Kovacs — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:04:35 +0000

How Open Source Intelligence can be applied to reconnaissance on critical infrastructure. In many cases it’s possible to narrow a search to specific buildings like power plants, wastewater plants, or chemical and manufactured facilities. The research consists of 26,000 exposed devices in United States.

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GCHQ Warns of State-sponsored Hackers Targeting Critical Infrastructure

Industry News — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:10:20 +0000

By Kevin Townsend (SecurityWeek) The U.K. Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Britain’s secret eavesdropping agency, warns that ‘a number of [UK] Industrial Control System engineering and services organisations are likely to have been compromised’ following the discovery of ‘connections from multiple UK IP addresses to infrastructure associated with advanced state-sponsored hostile threat actors.’ The warning comes from a National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) memo obtained by Motherboard and confirmed by the BBC. NCSC is part of the UK’s primary cyber intelligence agency, GCHQ. From the little […]

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How Vulnerable are Our Industrial Control Systems? What We Learned From ICS Attacks of 2016

Industry News — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 18:38:18 +0000

Multiple cyberattacks on critical infrastructure facilities in 2016 resulted in mere inconvenience or embarrassment. How long can dumb luck keep us from harm? By Michael Shalyt, VP Product, APERIO Systems When the U.S. Energy Department released a nearly 500 page report this month warning of an “imminent” threat to the electrical grid, it was the latest reminder of just how dependent our day-to-day existence is on critical infrastructure networks — from power grids and water supplies to transportation networks and more. In 2016, […]

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